King's Fool
“Mary, an ardent daughter of Rome, carrying the new-born babe who had supplanted her and handing him to Cranmer, the reforming Archbishop. Little red-headed Elizabeth, borne in Thomas Seymour’s spring arms, smiling in unwitting innocence at those who had been instrumental in bringing her own unremembered mother to the block. And her Boleyn grandfather, so tragically bereaved of brilliant son and exalted daughter, brought pitifully to holding a taper and a towel for the baptising of a Seymour hei...r.
THE CHRISTENING IN THE chapel at Hampton Palace will ever remain to me a blur of colours and incongruities. Mary, an ardent daughter of Rome, carrying the new-born babe who had supplanted her and handing him to Cranmer, the reforming Archbishop. Little red-headed Elizabeth, borne in Thomas Seymour’s spring arms, smiling in unwitting innocence at those who had been instrumental in bringing her own unremembered mother to the block. And her Boleyn grandfather, so tragically bereaved of brilliant son and exalted daughter, brought pitifully to holding a taper and a towel for the baptising of a Seymour heir.MoreLess
THE CHRISTENING IN THE chapel at Hampton Palace will ever remain to me a blur of colours and incongruities. Mary, an ardent daughter of Rome, carrying the new-born babe who had supplanted her and handing him to Cranmer, the reforming Archbishop. Little red-headed Elizabeth, borne in Thomas Seymour’s spring arms, smiling in unwitting innocence at those who had been instrumental in bringing her own unremembered mother to the block. And her Boleyn grandfather, so tragically bereaved of brilliant son and exalted daughter, brought pitifully to holding a taper and a towel for the baptising of a Seymour heir.MoreLess
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